I've recently recovered from acute Hepatitis B. Christmas and New Years are coming up. I may be wanting a beer or two. How long should I wait before I take a drink again?
2006-12-12 02:07:28 · 5 answers · asked by sirtitus 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Addition: 4 answers but nobody answered my question. I don't have Hep C, I don't have chronic Hep B. I don't have a drinking problem. My question was "How long after acute Hep B is it safe to drink again?"
2006-12-12 18:38:50 · update #1
It is dangerous to drink any alcohol when you have Hep B because alcohol is metabolized by the liver and Hep B may eventually destroy your liver. Please use extreme caution with consuming alcohol.
2006-12-12 02:12:08 · answer #1 · answered by limeyfan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are expediting the damage to your liver and seriously shaving years, if not decades off your life span. I know this first hand, I have had hepatitis C. I now volunteer at a Hepatitis clinic and have seen many people come to us for help when their liver starts to fail. Many continued to drink and only quit when they began having serious symptoms of liver failure. I saw five people die in the last 18 months due to drinking and hepatitis B or C. Because you are young you may not think this will happen to you, but I caution you to think again. For every drink you have, it is like someone without hepatitis having five drinks; you are expediting the damage five times faster. Alcohol helps the virus to replicate, thus increasing the fibrosis (scarring ) of the liver. When it is scarred, the blood cannot pass through it and it cannot do the metabolic functions effectively. Death from end stage liver disease is not pretty or quick. You can bleed to death from varices (portal veins burst causing vomiting of blood), stomach swells from fluid accumulation in the peritoneal cavity which has to be drained with a tube. The fluid causes difficulty breathing, too). It also causes encephalopathy (mental confusion, forgetting your name, where you live, etc). With encephalopathy, you can't drive, you're too tired to go out to do anything, and your quality of life sucks. If this appeals to you, keep drinking. If not, please quit drinking and consider doing the treatment again. Pegasys, a drug recently approved for hepatitis B, is having some good results. Get to a gastroenterologist (one who has a large percentage of hepatitis B or C patients) and give yourself a chance of having a decent life. Best wishes to you.
2016-03-29 04:24:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We hear very often that the human organs can be changed, but nobody takes time to think how far such cases have come successful. we easily forget forget the fact that HEALTH IS THE MOST PRECIOUS PROPERTY OF MANKIND. Once we lose, mind, it is very difficult to regain. You have been lucky to have overcome this problem, then why you should worsen the present condition by consuming alcohol.
2006-12-12 02:24:34 · answer #3 · answered by carencure 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS HAD HEP C, YOU SHOULD NOT DRINK NO ALCOHOL, I USED TO DRINK AND FOUND OUT I HAD HEP C, THEN I HAD TO QUIT, MY DOCTOR SAID DO NOT DRINK ANY MORE ALCOHOL OR IT WILL COME BACK THEN IT COULD KILL ME. SO IF YOU LIKE LIVING A BIT LONGER DO NOT CONSUME ALCOHOL BECAUSE THAT COULD BRING IT ON THEN YOU WOULD BE SICK AGAIN. TRUST ME TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW SICK IT WILL MAKE YOU.
2006-12-12 02:19:35 · answer #4 · answered by may s 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
maybe you should ask yourself a question.... How much fun was it being sick? Is a beer or two worth a relapse? If you feel that you cannot control yourself then make it an issue not to be around alcohol during the holidays.
2006-12-12 02:14:02 · answer #5 · answered by kissybertha 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋